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Friday, July 27, 2012

I Didn't Say It ....

Martin Cizmar, the arts and culture editor of Portland
Oregon's Willamette Week, on returning his Eagle Scout badge to the Boy Scouts in
protest of the group's anti-gay policies:

"I am not gay. However, I cannot in good conscious hold
this badge as long as the BSA continues a policy of bigotry. Though I didn't
know at the time, I was acquainted with a number of gay scouts and scouters.
They were all great men, loyal to the scout oath and motto and helpful to the
movement. There is no fair reason they should not be allowed to participate in
scouting."

Nice when more and more straight people step up as allies
against LGBT discrimination.

Bravo, Mr. Cizmar, Bravo!

Frank Bruni, NYT columnist, on Michelle Bachmann’s hate:

“Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations of
Barack Obama as ‘anti-American,’ one of many incendiary phrases in her attacks
against him in 2008? And does it compel a war against homosexuality waged with
the language and illogic she uses? She has said that gay men and lesbians are
dysfunctional products of abuse and agents of ‘sexual anarchy,’ and when the
singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago,
Bachmann helpfully chimed in: ‘This may be an opportunity for her now to be
open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical
disease. She is a lesbian.’ Bachmann’s concept of Christian love brims with
hate, and she has a deep satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah
did she learn that?”

Bachmann is the queen of masking her hate of LGBT people in
a cloak of Christianity, as she is a master of hiding her loathing of a Black
president in the guise of politics.

Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-Antigay, spouting his homophobia as the word of god [little g]:

"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say 'we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage' and I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about."

Um, how does his bigotry fit into Christianity? How does it work in Christian love? And which part of the Bible asked him to hate?

Tony Perkins, AFA bigot-in-chief, on Chick-fil-Antigay, to
his minions:

"Last week, Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy told the Baptist
Press of his company's steadfast support for marriage and family. This
simple affirmation of biblical truth has sent homosexual activists into a
frenzy. Chick-fil-A may be a private company, but that doesn't mean its
executives have to surrender their beliefs. Under the First Amendment, they are
just as entitled as any American to speak publicly about their views. Those of
us who share Chick-fil-A's commitment to the biblical definition of the family
need to show them that we stand with them (whether or not we're chicken
connoisseurs!). Please join thousands of others and 'Like' our Facebook post
supporting Chick-fil-A's stand. Leave a comment in support, or share the post
on your page. Join FRC and eat at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, August 1 for
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day - an effort started by Gov. Mike Huckabee to show
that Americans stand with them."

I love how the LGBT community is portrayed as hateful
because we call into question a fast food chain that takes its customers money
and funnels it into hate group—um, like the AFA.

Chick-fil-Antigay can do whatever they want to do with their
money, just like I can do whatever I want to with mine.

And it won’t be buying sammiches at a hate food store.

Tony Perkins, AFA bigot-in-0chief—aftar saying Chick-fil-Antigay ha the
right to fund whatever hate they choose, on Google being LGBT-friendly:

"Thanks to a new campaign, Google's approach to
traditional values is to search—and destroy. The web giant just kicked off a
worldwide push called 'Legalize Love,' aimed at breaking down the barriers to
homosexuality around the globe. Their biggest targets? Countries that have
moral objections to same-sex relationships…. After watching Target and J.C.
Penney take a financial hit after endorsing same-sex marriage, Google should
know better. They can push to 'Legalize Love,' but they shouldn't be surprised
by the blow back. Because when it comes to Google, political neutrality is what
most users are searching for."

Not only does Miss Tony not see his homophobia, his bigotry,
his hate, for the LGBT community, he cannot even see what a hypocrite he is; if
funding hate is A-OK for Chick-fil-Antigay, then funding love is A-OK for
Google.

"Parents and
grandparents who don't want their children and grandchildren sexually
indoctrinated with unnatural and unhealthy 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender' role models must decide now to exit the immoral, imploding,
dysfunctional government school system and place their children in church
schools or home schools. This is no time to be indecisive, since you only have
one chance with your child's education. Because of SB 48 and seven other
homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination laws, California K-12 government
schools have become radical sexual indoctrination agencies."

Funny, all those years I spent in school, having no access to gay education, just the straight kind, and I went all gay. By Thomasson’s own “logic” I should have
been indoctrinated into heterosexuality. Oh, but I guess The Straights don’t
have the ability to turn people straight; that’s a power for The Gays.

Phyllis Schlafly, on Obama’s non-religion:

“Every time he quotes from
the Declaration of Independence, he omits the word ‘Creator.’ That's very
strange; we all know what the Declaration says and he just omits that….You were talking a minute ago about
Arlington Cemetery; if you haven't been there, I'm sure you've seen pictures of
all the crosses there and I just wonder if the day is going to come when they
want to take down all those crosses."

Yes, Obama will
run across the Potomac and start digging up crosses in a cemetery because he’s
not the right kind of Christian.

And by that I mean
a white Christian.

Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Democratic National Committee head,
on her belief that marriage equality will be on the national party platform:

“I expect marriage equality to be a plank in the national
party platform. President Obama has declared his support for it ... Now, our
platform committee process is a people-powered process. We have a platform
committee and the platform is developed by our Democratic activists and the
platform committee members, so they’ll go through a process. I hope that
marriage equality, and expect that marriage equality, will be part of our
platform. "

"Shame on Hillary Clinton. In choosing to ignore the
reality that in the United States people are primarily infected with AIDS
through deviant homosexual behavior, she has essentially postured with a false
air of resolve while cowardly refusing to address the real cause of AIDS in the
U.S. and that’s homosexual behavior. We all know better and so should Hillary
Clinton. She missed a real opportunity here to show courage and discourage
people from engaging in the high-risk behavior of homosexuality that spreads
AIDS."

Yup. The kid who contracted HIV through tainted blood was a deviant.
The mother who contracted the virus while giving birth to a child is a pervert.
People having sex are not deviants.

We should all avoid high risk behaviors that might lead to
contracting the virus. Wear a condom; don’t have unprotected sex; get yourself
checked; don’t share needles.

But we aren’t deviants, we’re people, and it’s disgusting Barber
doesn’t see that.

He is the reason there is still a stigma about HIV and AIDS; he's the problem, not any kind of solution, much less compassion.

7 comments:

I'm amused by groups like Save California. I've always imagined them as people who are unwilling to move to Arizona like the white people who fled SoCal did during the real estate boom because it was getting "too ghetto". Whatever that means.

Bravo to Martin Cizmar!!!!! Handsome and a swell guy too! And we thank him for hsi stance. He does something with balls right? And as far as Tony Perkins goes, why, he can just go choke on his own chicken!

Dan Cathy calls us arrogant for thinking "...we have the audacity to define what marriage is about." (Well, I don't think I have the audacity, for one thing. What the hell does THAT mean, anyway? I DO think I have the right to have a say in it.) But isn't Mr. Chif-fil-Antigay doing exactly that (defining marriage)? Talk about a prideful, arrogant attitude.

I also didn't know "God" wrote the United States' marriage laws. I'm so grateful for all I've learned recently (Paul Revere rang a bell to warn the British about something... and now this).

What I love about Pissy Pants Perkins is that his allies are exercising their First Amendment Rights, however anyone to the contrary is an extremist. Mr. Cathy has every right to run his business as he sees fit, but whether a company is public or private, consumers and even governments can protest their lard headed business decisions. And Bravo to the mayor of Boston who told Cathy and his ilk to shove it.